New police bodycam footage has emerged of two officers brutally attacking and pepper-spraying a woman’s genitals as she laid naked on a road during a psychotic episode.
It comes as the identity of the woman was made public for the first time.
Nichole Allen and Sharee Castagna were sickened by the footage in which NSW Police officers, Senior Constable Nathan Black and Constable Timothy John Trautsch brutalised their cousin Jodi Knott, then 48.
The pair fought long and hard for the footage to be released to the public after Ms Knott died of cancer 18 months after the vile 2023 attack.
They want their cousin’s legacy to be better police training when responding to incidents involving acute mental illness.
Ms Allen broke down when the pair watched the bodycam footage for the first time.
… This is a good time for the “Who hurt you?” meme.
Of course I say that to be funny.
Your concerns are valid, and I did post this in the spirit of critizicing the po lice… But I also believe in reforming them to the best of our ability, if only because they are a necessary evi l, .
they’re not a necessary evil, they’re just a fucking evil
we managed to make it to, what, the 19th century without a police force, we can make do without them again.
as i said we can have a voluntary community self-defense force with no special powers or privileges, and that would be just fine, because that’s what we did for literally checks notes all of human history
But this was largely through mob rule, though, wasn’t it…